Use of genteel in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include genteel at the start of sentence, genteel at the end of sentence and genteel in the middle of sentence

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genteel at the end of sentence


  1. A bit more cultured, a bit more refined, a bit more genteel.
  2. Society of summer evenings in Lake Wobegon was formal and genteel.
  3. She was awkward, and naive, and thrifty, and ill-read, and genteel.
  4. He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel.
  5. Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel.

genteel in the middle of sentence


  1. It was all genteel at first.
  2. He lived in genteel poverty .
  3. She broke into a genteel run.
  4. She is too genteel for words.
  5. Her genteel accent irritated me.
  6. They are not for genteel walkers.
  7. Dawson came from a genteel family.
  8. The downtown has a genteel southern charm.
  9. The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
  10. If you are genteel enough, that sort of imprecision is possible.
  11. She always talks in such a genteel voice when she's on the phone.
  12. The game seemed to be a more genteel version of American football.
  13. This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea.
  14. His genteel manner of pouring coffee for his guests is perfectly in place.
  15. Tahseen Basheer exemplifies the genteel and considerate Cairo of the past.
  16. It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.
  17. A pianist plays twice a week in the small, genteel bar and the large lounge.
  18. Laugharne is a picturesque blend of genteel georgian houses and tiny cottages.
  19. If she was so genteel, she wouldn't have come here for the pittance she's paid.
  20. Pat had returned to London two years earlier, unable to settle with her genteel family in Chard.
  21. Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.
  22. Her shabby appearance and the battered portmanteau had weighed heavily against the genteel tone of her voice.
  23. It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class.
  24. By the fifteenth century they seem to have become dumping grounds for unwanted, unmarriageable or troublesome genteel ladies of little fortune.

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